Original brown ripple-grain cloth (Carter binding "A"), lettering and ornaments in gilt on spine, light yellow endpapers. Joanne Shattock, "Publishing and Publication", George Eliot in Context, ed. Their substantial collection focused on theology, history, philosophy and literature works.
Outram Smith (1871-1954), with their ownership stamps to the front free endpapers.
Herbert Maynard Smith (1869-1949), author of theological works and detective novels, and his brother Rev. This copy is from the library of the Anglican clergymen Rev. It also has the two additional pages of advertisements for Alexander Carlyle at rear, absent in some copies, without known priority. This copy is in Carter's "A" binding, with the more elaborate gilt-work on the spine than the "B" variant - the two may have been issued concurrently, although if they do represent different issues, he theorizes the "A" binding would have preceded. The response from both libraries and the public exceeded expectations" (Shattock, pp. The single volume was deliberately made 'thicker and handsomer' than a volume of an ordinary three-volume novel, and he calculated that the price of twelve shillings would attract individual buyers. "Its popular success was a pleasant surprise for Blackwood, who was initially worried about publishing another short fiction that might not be taken by libraries. Published on 2 April 1861, Silas Marner proved a success, resulting in 8,000 copies in five separate printings in 1861. With its happy ending, its legendary plot of the miser who turns into a philanthropist and finds happiness in adopting a child, it is different from her other novels, while sharing their humour and breadth of understanding" (ODNB). In the composition of Silas Marner, Eliot "experienced much less depression and fewer delays than was usual for her.
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